Jane Worthington--please help me sort things out

Question

This is what I have on Ancestry for Jane Worthington.  I clearly made a mistake that I don't want to transfer over to Wikitree.  If anyone can help me sort things out, I'd appreciate it:

Jane Worthington

1815–

BIRTH ABT 1815 • Monnington on Wye, Herefordshire, England

DEATH Unknown

3rd great-grandmother

Spouse & Children

• 

  James Bullock

  1826–1882

• Elizabette Bullock

  1845–

• Margaret Bullock

  1848–

• John Bullock

  1849–

• George Bullock

  1875–

• Herbert Bullock

  1880–

• Walter Bullock

  1881–

• Frederick Bullock

  1883–

• Richard Bullock

• Henry Bullock

Unknown spouse

• Mary Ann Bullock

  1836–

• Robert Bullock

  1839–

• Thomas Bullock

  1842–

• Susannah Bullock

  1848–

• Edward Bullock

  1850–

• Henry Bullock

  1860–

• John W. Bullock

  1866–

• Edith Bullock

  1869–

• Arthur Bullock

  1871–

• Edit

  Herbert Bullock

  1880–

Comments

Yeah, I’d say there’s a problem with all of this. Good start: you’ve got the parents’ profiles up. I would not transfer any of these children over to WikiTree.... yet (see below). There is far too much overlap for all of them to have been children of the parents you’ve profiled, and the date range is far to wide. Fifty-seven years of having children!

Go back to the sources and enter only those children for which you can find sources. You already have several sources (census records) listed on Jane’s profile, so there's a good start. If you think there might be, for good reason, other children, you can put them in research notes for the parents and the reason for thinking so.

That’s just how I’d do it. Someone else may be along here who will, more than likely, give you a better way to handle this. 

Answer 1

Hi Scott!  Don't worry, you are in an ideal situation now to set the record straight.  As you are building the profile for Jane and her family, include facts with solid sources.  Don't include anything you don't have a solid source for.  That way, your WikiTree info will be solid.  Then if you like, go back to your Ancestry tree and disconnect the items you no longer believe in, or edit the relationships to what you now know.  

I use my Ancestry trees as a sandbox/desktop to assemble hints, and then only put the verifiable sourced info on WikiTree.  I have a disclaimer on my Ancestry trees to that effect.  I have lots of bits of trees that aren't my ancestors, built in the process of determining that they aren't my ancestors, just people with similar names, dates, and places that have been disconnected (using the 'edit relationships' button) after i had a chance to review, as you are doing now.

Fixing the Ancestry trees is a bit of a 3 step operation: decide what you want to keep, then delete or disconnect the other people, then Remove the sources that no longer are relevant.  

I'm not sure that really was what you were looking for, but having glanced at your work on Jane's line in WikiTree, it seems that you are on the right track.  

FamilySearch has a marriage registry for a John Bullock and a Jane Worthington.  It is 6 months prior to the birth of Elizabette/Elizabeth/Eliza.

Name: James Bullock

Birth Date: 1825

Birthplace:

Age: 20

Spouse's Name: Jane Worthington

Spouse's Birth Date: 1825

Spouse's Birthplace:

Spouse's Age: 20

Event Date: 27 Apr 1845

Event Place: Pemberton, , Landcaster Co., England

Father's Name: James Bullock

Mother's Name:

Spouse's Father's Name: Michael Worthington

Spouse's Mother's Name:

Race:

Marital Status:

Previous Wife's Name:

Spouse's Race:

Spouse's Marital Status:

Spouse's Previous Husband's Name:

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00817-6

System Origin: England-EASy

GS Film number: 1885637

Reference ID: Page 85-170

Citing this Record:

"England Marriages, 1538–1973  ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NNNN-TNF : 10 February 2018), James Bullock and Jane Worthington, 27 Apr 1845; citing Pemberton, , Landcaster Co., England, reference Page 85-170, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,885,637.

Cheers and good luck!

Shirlea